(back-dated) puzzle for the ages

[longwei2go]

Jinjing Sawyl Longwei shared a photo. 03/10 near Viea Village

find whats wrong with this picture spoiler: MY EYES ARE BLUE i give up on shit making sense anymore

(OOC: I dropped the ball hard on my event plans this month. if anyone wants something else, or misfires just hit up Yin's inbox here and I'll whip something up!)

Comments

[longwei2go]

im not claiming anything
it
fucking
happened

[truedetective]

That is the definition of a claim, yes.

You could be using contact lenses or a photo filter.

[longwei2go]

oh my god do you want me to take a selfie with some kind of sign or stream this in real time for you to get it

[truedetective]

The only thing I'm saying is that the only word we have to go on is yours. Memory changes are one thing, but physical changes? What could possibly have caused that?

[longwei2go]

what memory changes
you mean peoples dreams

[truedetective]

Do you remember horses?

[longwei2go]

a horse is a horse
of course i remember horses

[truedetective]

Yet others don't.

Memories are changing. Physical changes are harder to explain.

[longwei2go]

if you can explain anything that happened since retrospec dropped
be my guest

[truedetective]

It is something of a




work in progress

[longwei2go]

whats that supposed to mean

[truedetective]

It means it's a work in progress.

How do you know what color your eyes are? Or were, before. Did they feel blue?

Reality may not be able to be altered, but perhaps perception can.

[longwei2go]

did they
feel
blue

are you high

im not right now and i know they were blue because im staring at photos
MY PROFILE HAS THEM AS BLUE

[ or it should be but eh. it's tiny and was never altered. ]

[truedetective]

I hope you realize that in your irritation you've proven my point. There's no inherent quality to your eyes that makes them blue, or purple, or what have you.

What if the color of your eyes hasn't changed, but you now perceive them as purple? Would it be so different from people perceiving horses as giant birds?

[longwei2go]

thats not the same
i pet and fed baby chocobos that day
everywhere horses disappeared

or are you trying to say
they were never real

[truedetective]

The chocobos are clearly real by any way we have to measure it. We can interact with them, touch them, see them. But our memory of horses is less clear. After all, there are no horses here in front of us just now. What if the ones who don't remember horses are correct, and our memories are the false ones? In other words, what if your eyes were always this color, and your memory that they were blue is a fabrication?

[longwei2go]

because its on my birth certificate
because everyone always said i had my dads eyes
and his are blue too

the whole thing about horses being fake is whats out of this world
i remember horse head masks vines and memes
now their replaced by rubber chocobo heads
memes dont just vanish overnight
the internet never forgets

[truedetective]

But you remember watching those videos. You remember hearing those comments. Everything before now, before this very conversation, is a memory.

And memories, as we've seen, have been vulnerable to change.

[longwei2go]

so basically the world right now is like that one weird al song
everything you know is wrong

[truedetective]

I apologize, I don't recognize that reference.

[longwei2go]

okay hang on

here you go


[ or there's just lyrics to make the point. ]

[truedetective]

This song is




very silly

[longwei2go]

a lot less silly now than it used to be
anyway
what happens if i buy into your theory
what now

[truedetective]

To be honest, I'm not sure. Things are far too strange right now. Even if we accept it's only a matter of perception and memory, that's still frightening in its scope. Suppose that you never did have blue eyes, but they were able to make you think they did. What other facets of our identity could be fraudulent?

[longwei2go]

i know theres some shit in my life i wish were fake
pretty sure everyone thinks that
maybe they got us that way